-
Title
-
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, a solo exhibition
-
Description
-
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, a solo exhibition presents a new co-commission by the Beirut-based artist and ‘private ear’. Featuring three newly designed sound instruments, over ninety sourced objects and an audio work, Earwitness Theatre (2018) explores the political effects of listening through the hallucinatory world of the ear-witness. The new commission is presented alongside Abu Hamdan’s recent film Walled Unwalled (2018), which together develop the artist’s ear-witness investigation into the Syrian regime prison of Saydnaya, which the artist was invited to carry out in partnership with Amnesty International and Forensic Architecture, Goldsmiths University, London, as part of a broader enquiry.
Abu Hamdan’s exhibition is commissioned and produced by Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in partnership with Chisenhale Gallery, London; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. It will be presented at the partner venues throughout 2019.
Participants
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Curators
Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Rosa de Graaf
Network
Chisenhale Gallery, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Supported By
AMMODO, The artist’s fee is supported by the Mondriaan Fund (from the Experimental Regulations)
<div class="
-
Identifier
-
KIM-EXH-2283
-
19_2
-
Type
-
Exhibition
-
Date
-
2019-01-27/2019-04-28
-
Temporal Coverage
-
2019
-
Publisher
-
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art
-
Spatial Coverage
-
Rotterdam
-
Language
-
en
-
Is Part Of
-
Exhibition history
-
Rights Holder
-
Kunstinstituut Melly
-
Creator
-
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
-
Contributor
-
Rosa de Graaf
-
Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
-
Relation
-
Chisenhale Gallery
-
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, a solo exhibition — image 005 Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Earwitness Inventory, 2018, 95 sourced and custom-designed objects/ instruments, and an animated text (across the hall), text animated by David Reinfurt and Eric Li at O-R-G, 29:44 minutes, courtesy of the artist. Exhibition overview Lawrence Abu Hamdan, a solo exhibition, 2019, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, photographer Kristien Daem.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, a solo exhibition — image 004 Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Saydnaya (the missing 19db), 2017, listening room, sound, 12:48 minutes, looping at minute 15, courtesy of the artist, commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation. Exhibition overview Lawrence Abu Hamdan, a solo exhibition, 2019, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, photographer Kristien Daem.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, a solo exhibition — image 003 Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Walled Unwalled, 2018, video, 20 minutes, courtesy of the artist. Exhibition overview Lawrence Abu Hamdan, a solo exhibition, 2019, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, photographer Kristien Daem.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, a solo exhibition — image 002 Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Earwitness Inventory, 2018, 95 sourced and custom-designed objects/ instruments, and an animated text (across the hall), text animated by David Reinfurt and Eric Li at O-R-G, 29:44 minutes, courtesy of the artist. Exhibition overview Lawrence Abu Hamdan, a solo exhibition, 2019, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, photographer Kristien Daem.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, a solo exhibition — image 001 Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Earwitness Inventory, 2018, 95 sourced and custom-designed objects/ instruments, and an animated text (across the hall), text animated by David Reinfurt and Eric Li at O-R-G, 29:44 minutes, courtesy of the artist. Exhibition overview Lawrence Abu Hamdan, a solo exhibition, 2019, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, photographer Kristien Daem.